IT IS highly likely that Guy Fawkes wanted to cause as much damage as possible when he hatched the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.

IT IS highly likely that Guy Fawkes wanted to cause as much damage as possible when he hatched the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.

If he was willing to risk death for his treason, he was willing to risk blowing up half of London town.

Under torture, the York-born rebel revealed that he and 12 others wanted to blow up the Parliament, King and lords to throw the country into political turmoil. The plan was to raise a new monarch who would return Britain to being a Catholic nation.

Fawkes was not burnt as some people believe, but hanged, drawn and quartered.